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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
COSTLY COLLECTIONS.

Secretary FAIRCHILD is making quite
good record as a refOrmer. Mr.. FAIR
CHILD is practical business man, who
does not think it beneath the dignity OF
his Office to look after the smallest de-
tails. 1t was in this way he discovered
considerable leakage in the system of
collecting revenues from customs that
had been in force ever since the present
tariff law has been in existence. The
leakage consisted in the unnecessarily
heavy expense of collecting these Gus
toms. In sixty-fOur of the 139 collec-
ton districts in the United States the
revenues are less than the expenses.
Assistant Secretary MAYNARD, to
whom was entrusted the work of in
vestigating this matter, reports that
there are fOrty-four districts in which
the total collections do not exceed
$1,000, while the expenditure aggregates
$4,000 annually. At the port Of En-
pire City, Or, last year the total rev.
enue amounted to just GO cents, and yet
it cost the government the nice little
sum of 3,23S to collect that go cents.
At Yaquima, another Oregon port, 20
cents were collected at a cost of 1859.
Secretary FAIRCHILD was impressed
with the necessity for reducing the cost
of custom collections down to something
better than a self-supporting basis, and
has accordingly adopted plan which
will accomplish the object.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
HOW A WOMAN RESTS HER
SELF.
Why Her Back Aches and Her
Limbs Grow Weary.

!, How differently men and women in
dulge themselves in what is called a
resting spell. 81 guess I'll sit down
and mend these stockings and rest
awhile" says the wife, but her husband
throws himself upon the easy lounge or
sits back in his armchair, with hands at
rest and feet placed horizontally upon
another chair. The result is that his
whole body gains full benefit of the
half hour he allows himself from
work, and the wife only re-
ceives that indirect help which
comes from change of occupation, says
the New England Farmer. A physician
would tell her that taking even ten
minutes rest in a horizontal position, as
change from sitting or standing at
work, would prove more beneficial to
her than any of her makeShifts at rest
ing. Busy women have habit of keep
ing on their feet just as long as they
can, in spite of backacheS and warning
pains. As they grow older they see the
folly of permitting such drafts upon
their strength, and learn to take things
easier, let what will happen. They say:
Il used to think | must do thus and
so, but Eve grown wiser and learned TO
slight things" The first years of house
keeping are truly the hardest, for I'M
tried and unfamiliar cares are almost
daily trust upon the mother and home
maker.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
TARIFF TORPEDOES.

1t is to be regretted that Mr.. BLAINE,
since he has so far interrupted the re-
laxations of his SoiOurn in Europe as to
discuss at length these questions of tar
if and revenue, did not give the cOun-
try the benefit of his experience and
observation, with some practical hints
as to the means by which further and
more effective disposition of the sur
plus may he reached. Is Mr.. BLAINE
to be claSSed among those very IMPROVE
dent economists who favor heavy and
forced government expenditures in
many lines simply i'll order that the peO-
pie maybe overtaXed?-Boston Tran
script Qnd.).
The proposition to continue a federal
internal revenue tax solely and directly
for the purpose of promoting a moral
reform in matter properly under state
regulations, and to parcel out among the
states the money in the federal treas
ury with a view to tightening state tax
ation,i is too prepOSterOuS for serious dis
cusSiOn. If Brother BLAINE entertainS
such loose notions of the relations be-
tween the federal government and the
states, it strikes US that he would be a
cOnspicuOusly unfit person to intrust
with the management of the nation S
financial affairS.-New York Sun Dem.)
Mr., CLEVELAND will now. beyond all
question, be the candidate of his party
for reelection, and no citizen of the re-
public need to be in doubt as to his po-
sition, as was the case three years ago,
touching the subject of our tariff policy.
If the Republicans have any fight in
them and really care for principle, they
could not desire better opportunity to
show the fact than is now offered them.
Frank Leslie's Qnd).
The battle ground Of the next general
election has been chosen by the reform
erS, and that, however willing Mr..
BLAINE may be to accept the challenge,
it is Mr.. CLEVELAND who has forced
the fighting and selected the field. And
the contest being, as we have said, over
matter of practical craftsmanship and
not of party prejudice, the usual space
of time over which it is to extend con-
stitutes no disadvantage.-BOs Post
lDem.).
Now that Mr.. CLEVELAND has de-
fined the issue, now that he has drawn
broad, sharply defined policy, and that
policy free trade, who can doubt the
name of the man who best represents
protection as opposed to pauper free
trade? JAMES q. BLAINE is the man.
Philadelphia News (Rep.)
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
A Fatal Collision.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.-A serious col
lisiOn occurred this morning near New
port, Ark, between sOuth-bound pas
senger train and north-bOund freight
on the Iron Mountain railroad. The
fireman of the passenger train was in
stantly killed, and the engineer, Valen-
tine, seriously wounded, perhaps ia
tally. ROadmaster English was severely
injured. The baggage master and ex-
press messenger were also hurt slightly,
and the passengers well, shaken up, but
none of them were injured. The bag
gage and express cars were turned over
and took fire, but the flames were
speedily put out. Both locomotives and
several freight cars were practically de-
molished. The engineer and fireman
of the freight train escaped by jumping
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
THE DANES BILL.

As affOrding the most speedy means
of adequately opening up the great
Sioux reservation to settlement, the
DAWES bill is now being watched with
a great deal of interest IN the Northwest.
The reservation comprises over 22,0O0.-
600 acres of choice agricultural land in
Southwestern Dakota. On this immense
tract live less than $4,000 Indians, every
one of whom is supported by the gov
eminent.
Only few acres of land in the vicin-
ity of agencies are cultivated. The re-
mainder is absolutely unproductive.
Under the DAWES bill 10,0G0,000 acres
would be thrown open to settlement,
and for this the Indians would receive
S5,000.000 Not only that, but each In
dian family, beside 1000, its share of the
fund, would receive $500 acres of land,
and would continue to receive ratiOns
from the government. What more
could the noble savage desire?
The boon that the opening of the res
ervation would be to the Northwest can
only be appreciated by those who know
the rapidity with which all of the avail
able agricultural land in Dakota has
been taken up. The Northwest needs
more room to accommodate the surplus
immigration, and it can only find it in
the Indian reservations. No injustice
is done the red men in dispOsing of their
surplus lands. On the contrary, with
white men on every side of them, there
is far more prospect of their civilization
and of their eventually becoming self
supporting.
1t is to be hoped that the Northwest
ernerS who are now in Washington for
the purpose of urging favorable cOnsid-
Grafton of the bill will be successful in
their efforts, and that the Northwestern
congressman will aid them by every
means in their power.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
A Wicked Career Ended.

RED STONE JUNCTION, Pa, Dec. 49,
Word has been received that Elihu
Gregg. who for fifty years has been the
terror of the border farmers of Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, Ohio and Mary
land. was found dead few days ago on
bullet hole in his breast. Gregg, who
was over eighty years old, has just been
released from a term in prison in this
county for horse stealing, and went at
once lowest Virginia, swearing he would
kill certain persons whom he charged
swith trecahery to him. is supposed
THAT he met death at the hands of one of
those mountaineers while striving to
carry out his threats. Gregg was des-
perate character, and in his long career
ras horse and cattle thief he managed
to elude justice with cunning and skill.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.
A Budget of News Items Gathered
in London.

Copyright Cable to the Globe
LONDON, Dec. 20.-The presence of
Henry White, secretary of the American
legation, at the banquet given last night
by the members of the Sugar BOunties'
tense, although unofficial, interest was
being taken just at present in Americas
attitude in regard to the bounty theory.
English sugar men have declared
against the granting of foreign bOuntieS.
They are naturally anxious to ascertain
what the large dealers in America think
on the subject. Mr.. White, who has at
tended the four last sittingS of the con-
ference, was made an honorary guest at
the banquet, and toast was drunk to
him and the country which he repre-
sented. In responding to the toast, Mr..
White thanked the members for the
honor of permitting him to be present,
though he was not there in any official
capacity, and expressed the hope that
the United States would join IN the con-
ference before 1t reaSSembled in the
spring.
The life sentence passed on Doherty
to-day for shooting George Graham is
pleasing to Americans who know him.
He is well-nnown desperate and
gambler, and is considered exceedingly
lucky to escape the gallOWS. The prlS-
oner's American record probably had
some influence with the jury.
Lord Hartington's visits to-day to
Messrs. Goschen and Smith have re-
vived the rumors that gained ground
before the recess that the Tory house
hold was exceedingly anxious for that
Unionist marquis to become dOmesti-
Gated in their fold. 1t is apparent that
the Tories still desire him to accept an
office in the cabinet, and so gain him to
their cause. The fact that every Tory
bill that is formulated is submitted to
Lord Harrington as soon as it is drafted
can be regarded as evidence of the truth
of such statement. That he will drift
naturally to his opponents and be pre-
vailed upon to enter Salisbury's cabinet,
or form one of his own, is considered as
an undOubted result of the friendly ne
gOtiatiOns he has recently carried on
with the Tories
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
THE LATEST CASE
OF Gall as Displayed by a Corn
Fed Book Agent.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
There is book agent in this city at
the present time who is genius, man
utterly unlike the rest of his class,
fisher of men equipped with Imagination
as well as audacity. If his turn for
mendacity holds out it will land him in
a seat at about the right hand of his Sa-
tanic majesty. Yesterday this strongly
marked individual walked into one of
the largest wholesale grocery houses
in this city with a couple
of books under his arm, neatly
wrapped up IN a brown paper.
He was handsomely dressed in style
''quite English, We know" and, serious
ly speaking, there was decOrOuS snav-
ity in his gait which was almost clerical.
He traversed the big Office and stopped
at the desk of one of the principal men,
bers of the firm. The latter looked up
as the stranger approached, and, being
a man of keen perception. diagnosed the
case correctly. He said: ''Another-
book agent; L don't want any books;
Pm busy"
81 AM no book agent" said the
stranger, calmly, as he pulled chair
up close to the merchants desk, 81 am
the representative Os the London pub
fishing firm of Black & Son. Twas sent
here to introduce their publications to
the leading citizens of the United States.
l was told by Mr.. Westinghouse that
you were a leading citizen and"
Il don't want any books, tell you,"
broke in the merchant.
II don't want to sell any books, L
want you and others to know who Black
IL Son are. l communicate the result
of my tour by cable to my employers;
they telegraph me my salary as | go,
week by week; even my hotel bills are
settled by cable. Now you are lead
ing citizen and your time is valuable;
very well, will pay you S. for five min
utes of your time" and the speaker put
his hand in his pocket and drew out
wallet from which he drew out green
back. The merchant caught hold of his
chair and simply gasped. Then his cap
tor went on: Il have here copy of
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables,' one of
set of the great French authors works,
and | will show you"
''NO you won't! Just tell me what
the sets worthr' said the victim.
Just S32."
The merchant wrote a check for the
amount, handed it to the agent and said:
Now, 60"
The agent went, and the man whom
he had conquered fell back in his chair
murmuring: SALARY by cable, expenses
by cable, IS for five minutes-well, I'll
be id"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.
"A Plan to Have 1t Bought by the
Dominion Government.

LONDON, Dec. 2O.-The Financial
News publishes an article which is ex-
citing much interest here. 1t begins
by referring to statement from its
special correspondent in New York to
the effect that there was
report there TO the effect that the
Canadian government is about to take
possession of the Canadian Pacific rail
road, giving in return perpetual guar
antee of 3 per cent. 1t also says
tibet the matter has been made the sub
ject of pamphlet signed "Anglo-C Can
adian" and adds: ''This writer strongly
supports the suggestion that the
line should be acquired by the domin-
ion, the government obtaining six dis
tlnct privileges in exchange for the
guarantee: These are the 100000
the lines; the railroad monopoly
rights; the free use of the
telegraph; the right to transport
troops and stores at working cost; one
half OF the profits beyond per cent
and control of the rates" The Finan-
cial News maintains that the Canadian
government would have the best
of the bargain in securing the six
concessions named, because the present
guarantee has six years to run before
the government could take possession,
during which the property would
greatly develop and grow in value. The
paper adds: ''The surrender of the mo-
nopoly rights in the Northwest and the
opening of the whole country to railroad
enterprise would almost compensate the
dominion for per cent guarantee,
entailing as it would an Immediate
and extensive growth of trade
and industry in Manitoba and
the Northwest, and, in a second degree,
i'll Eastern Canada. Moreover, it would
put an end to such serious complications
as that which recently threatened the
peace of the Northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
Times Have Changed.

III Dlts.
Aged Philanthropist-I can't see why
you should be disconnected. You make
a great deal more than / did when 1 be-
gan my career as journeyman in the
same trade.
Workingman-But a workingman's
expenses are higher than they were
then.
P.-I have figured on that, and find
that the cost of everything is less in
proportion to the wages paid now than
it was when was young; yet saved
money, made start for myself and got
rich, while you talk as if you hadn't
enough ahead to bury you.
W.-Too true! It's a hard, cruel
world. don't see how you got ahead.
How much were your assessments?
P.-What assessments?
W.-Assessments for hall rents, and
parade uniforms, and brass bands, and
speakers, and officers, and delegates, and
funds for strikers, and
P.-My gracious! We had no expenses
of that kind.
VINO wonder you got rich.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
The Chicago Boodlers.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-The question
whether on account of alleged errors
the convicted bOodler, Engineer Edward
Mcdonald, shall have new trial, was
taken under advisement by the appel
late court this evening. Arguments pro
and con occupied the courts attention
throughout the entire day. In the
criminal court, about the same moment
the Mcdonald arguments ended, jury
was finally secured to try DR.. st. John
and others, for completely in the con-
Spiraey that resulted in the escape of
McDonald's fellow-boOdler, eX-W arden
McGarrigle. The defense seemed en-
tirely satisfied with the taleSmen pre-
scented to select from, but the prosecu-
ton only accepted jury after exhaust
ing the power of challenge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
SCOTS COAL TARIFF VIEWS

Congressman W. L. SCOTT, of Penn
sylvania. is one of the largest coal pro-
ducers in the couhtry He is also an
ardent believer in thorough reforma-
ton of the tariff. To our Republican
friends who are inclined to think that
the business of the country will go to
the dogs if the tariff is removed. these
two statements may seem inconsistent;
but they are not.
So far from being inconsistent, Mr..
SCOTT goes so far as to advocate the re-
moval of the duty on coal. He does not
even ask me derate protection, strange
as it may seem 10 thS other coal baronS,
but favors the removal of the entire tax.
And Mr.. SCOTT doesn't expect to lose
any money either, even if the duty
is removed. He knows very well that he
can produce coal and sell it just as
cheaply in thiScOuntTy as the foreign
producers can, who have to pay ocean
freightS, and, grown rich on the ex-
orbitant prices which the protective
tariff has enabled him to secure, he is
now willing to meet the people on a
more reasonable basis.
1t is notorious that the coal producers
have through the virtual absence of
competition been able to demand prices
for their coal far in excess of a reasona-
BILE profit. The people have been made
to pay tribute, and the producers have
filled their purses. 1t is to Mr.. SCOTT's
credit as one of the interested class, that
he, in consistently advocating tariff re-
ductiOn, recognizes the fact that there is
no reason why the government should
aid the coal producers at the peoples
expense.
His detection will doubtless cause a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
The Warden of the Tennessee
Penitentiary Discovers
a Clever Plot,
And Manages to Prevent the
81 Escape Of a Lot Of His
Jail Birds.
FDesperate ARRAY in a Saloon
at Opelousas, La, Involv-
ing Three Men,
A Peculiar Case at Detroit
! The Coleman Trial--The
Chicago Boodlers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dee. 2O.-Warden
Pearcy, of the state penitentiary, has
discovered and nipped in the bud what
promised to be wholesale escape from
the state penitentiary here. 1t was
planned for Sunday evening shortly be-
fore 8 o'clock and half an hours delay
in the discovery would have been all the
time the convicts wanted. They had cut
a large hole in the roof of an unoccupied
cell on the top floor through which they
were to go and thence gain the ground
by rope thirty feet long which they
had plated from pieces of hemp. A
guard named Thompson found the hole
in the roof shortly before the appointed
time, and the plot was foiled. Prison
erS are allowed to walk in the corridors
until the eight o'clock bell rings, and
this time had been employed i'll doing
the work
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
"A Narrow Escape.

New YORK, Dec. 20.-An uptown
train on the Sixth Avenue Elevated
railroad, crowded with passengers, was
thrown from the track near the Frank
lin Street station, in West Broadway,
this afternoon. The cars bumped along
over the ties and would have fallen into
the street but for the fact that at the
point where the accident occurred a
third track is being put in, over the mid
die of the street, and timbers to sustain
the additional track had been thrown
across between the tracks on the sides
of the street. The derailed train was
therefore sustained by these timbers.
The passengers were terribly frightened
and panic stricken, but no one was hurt.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21

and contractor, now undergoing impris-
onment in the Western penitentiary for
the killing Of 06ediah HaymaRer b in the
the board Of pardOns again
tonight on a petition for re-
hearing. Weston based the application
upon the ground that the crime was not
greater than voluntary manslaughter,
the extreme penalty for which, two
years. Imprisonment, he has already
suffered, and on the ground that at the
former hearing evidence which the jury
had passed upon was enormously adj
mitted. A number of responsiveness
against interference with the sentence
are on file. Action on the petition was
postponed till tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
A Desperate ARRAY.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2O.-A special
from Opelousas says: GA desperate
affray took place in saloon here late
last night, in which three men were
shot and all probably fatally wounded.
Stephen McGaffey, cOlored, the only eye
witness of the difficulty, who received
stray bullet in the region of the
kidneys from which he is dying, in
his anti-mortem statement, says: Mark
Finberg, proprietor of the saloon, and
myself were sitting at the front door of
the saloon when George LastrOpe, the
town constable came up. The two got
into dispute and after LastrOpe had
struck Findberg both men commenced
firing, and In endeayOring to get out of
the way | received shot. Eight shots
were fired" Lastrope and Finberg are
both shot through the breast. The doc
tor attending them thinks all three of
the wounded men will die. Politics
was the cause of the trouble.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
People in Kansas Dying From
Cold and Starvation.

KANSAS CITY, Dec, 20.-The Times
has Geographic advices which indicate
that there is terrible suffering in the
western part of Kansas. Four
people are reported dead in Clark
county from the cold, while near
Dighton, Kan, a woman and her two
children are known to have persisted.
There is great suffering in that section
of the state owing to the scar
city of coal. The supply was exhausted
during previous cold snap in the
first part of the month, and tie situa-
ton is now deplorable. The suffering
is augmented by the want of food; that
is almost as scarce as fuel. Many
of the inhabitants are settlers;
who located claims last sum-
mer and who are dependent
on what the railroads bring in. The
railroads are trying to do all in their
power to relieve the distress, but they
are handicapped by a scarcity of cars.
They have not enough to supply the
urgent demand for food and fuel
and widespread distress is inevitable
unless the weather speedily moderates.
The Santa Fe road has already an
nounced that it will ship free all sup
plies which may be collected for Clark
county,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-21
CL EOPATRA.

To-day you see me here in stone
A pulseless queen
A sculptors vain imagining
OF what I've been
He gave to me form of grace,
A regal air
He fashioned me with artists skill
Beyond compare.
Yet hath he missed me for all that
His art is cold;
His chiseled likeness halts at life
Does not unfold.
l dream in this one attitude
Through all my days,
While countless eyes pause, where | rest,
With lingering gaze.
Oh. Sculptor, give me back my life,
To reign once more,
To lead my retinue along
Niles tawny shore,
To find again my Antony,
To feel his arms,
To rest secure within their fold
From earth's alarms.
oh. change me from this icy thing
To living queen
long to show to all the world
What have been.
Breathe soul into this shapely form,
Retune my voice
The multitude will praise your skill,
And loud rejoice.
Is it not sad that I, who ruled
By beautys right,
Should vanquished be by death, and roam
Through Stygian night?
l wander, desolate and lone,
Through midnight lands
Oh, give me life, and Antony,
And Egypts sands.
Ramsay Morris in Metropolitan Museum
of Art